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Dead Computer :( Help!

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Jakalwarrior

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Fun fun. I was playing the witcher for about 2 hours when all of a sudden the computer hung. Oh well, the witcher does that all the damn time. So... I restarted my coputer and it went through the paces, I saw the bios etc... and went for a cup of water. I come back and the screen has no signal. Successive reboots get me nothing. Fans spin, video card flashes its lights, cd rom and hd initiate, then nothing.

First suspect? the video card! after all I did mess with its heatsink yesterday so I thought maybe it toasted. I tested it in another computer and it works fine.

Next suspect? the ram! I took the ram out to see if I could get a beep code and I got nada. I am not sure of this M3A though since it has two dead ram slots and it never beeps when the ram is in them either, I had to find that problem through trial and error (it came this way).

That is all I can test! I tried clearing the bios and got nothing. I am now letting the battery sit out. Anyone got any ideas? I dont have any spare AM2 chips or boards and no spare DDR2 to test with :(

My gut says its probably this shitty M3A board that has always given me problems but I cant just start buying random parts and pray I find the problem since with my luck it will be the very last one! any ideas?
 
In my experience of booting systems where everything lights up and fans come up but the system will not boot, is a bad motherboard. A bad CPU or ram would give you post beeps.
 
Ooops, I was wrong it does beep, It just has no onboard speaker so I had to actually hook up the one in my case to it. Time to look up what two short beeps mean.

An E7200 is looking really tempting right now!
Except then I would still be stuck trying to sort this out and maybe rmaing this board that has been retarded since the day I bought it.
 
have u tried one stick at a time also try memtest like bigdogchris said could be bad ram or cpu if it beeps memtest run it at least twice on each stick
 
2 beeps is typically a memory error if I remember correctly. So if the board had 2 dead RAM slots to begin with it's always possible that something really screwy is going on there. Worst case scenario, not only is the mobo a piece of crap but it possibly fried your RAM with out of spec. voltage. I've seen that happen only once before (with the first batch of 680i mobos) :(

I would try RMAing the mobo if that is an option. Beyond that you could just buy a single stick of really cheap RAM and test to see if it boots. Either way though I think you'll be replacing that mobo.

BTW, you say you tested the vid card in another computer; have you tested the RAM in another comp as well? If you can put the RAM on another system and run memtest. If the memory comes back error free you know what you have to do.
 
Unable to test the ram in a different computer, every other comp in the house is 939. I did try each individual piece in different slots though and nada. First two slots I get a BEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP repeating, second two slots I get BEEP..............(10 second pause)....................... BEP BEP and then nothing more. First two never worked. I dont doubt it could kill my ram but I doubt it would kill both pieces at the exact same time.

I ordered an E7200 and a mobo for myself so I will be able to test the ram soon. After that I will RMA the board first since even if it isn't causing this issue, it is still a piece of @#^%. If the board comes back and the chip is dead, I guess I will just have to buy a new one, although I would be sure that my first MSI board is actually what damaged (had the mosfetts pop) since I really doubt stock voltage would kill it.
 
Well damnit I fixed it lol.
Never going to guess what it was........
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Stinking monitor!. Kept saying no signal no signal no signal. The beep code was from the "no fan, press F1 to resume" message from after I reset my bios and was unable to turn that message off.
Unplugged the monitor for a while it it became able to pick up the signal again.
Ohwell, E7200 is still on the way and I am too hyped about overclocking it so I am keeping it lol. Wife can have this one.
 
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